And, as usual, no one from Kansas City is on it. Yet. (You will be glad to know, however, that Dananananaykroyd, from Glasgow, is.)
A coworker was wondering aloud today whether the festival would be as big this year because of the economy. Many of the unsigned acts that flood the city -- playing free shows any place that will have them, paying all their own expenses, sleeping in the van and so forth -- probably won't be able to go this year. And in past years, that's precisely how Kansas City
Right on the heels of the June 2 release of their new (seventh) album, Let the Dominoes Fall, punk icons Rancid are coming to the Beaumont. They'll be hitting the club's outside decks on June 19 with support from Rise Against.Rachel Tejada
If you're a superfan -- and you're on this new thing called "MySpace" -- then you can help the band promote by featuring the new single, "Last One to Die," on your profile when the single is released on April 7. Go to Rancid's MySpace page and follow the thre
Maybe it was the brain freeze that hit me after my second sip of an ice-cold apple cider slushie, but I forgot to ask Mike Gerhardt -- who owns the Pome on the Range Orchards & Winery in Williamsburg, Kansas -- if "Pome" is a play on pomme, the French word for apple. I mean, it was a giant, helium-filled apple, bobbing up in the sky over I-35 South, that caught my eye when I was heading back from a visit to a weird, Children of the Corn kind of small town south of Ottawa. I couldn't get
Lynn JenkinsKansas Congresswoman Lynn "Where all the white folks at?" Jenkins' naivete defense for using turn-of-the-century racist phrase "great white hope" at a town-hall meeting a couple of weeks ago lost credibility Friday thanks to the Ottawa Herald. The Herald dug up the Kansas Republican's vote on a resolution asking President Obama to pardon Jack Johnson -- the first black world heavyweight boxing champion -- for violating the Mann Act (Johnson was convicted in 1913 for crossing state
